Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Tuesday, June 30, 2009

I can do all things in Him Who strengthens me.

- Phil 4:13

Reflection: Remember how the first Christians, most of them simple and humble people, suffering the most cruel persecutions, were successful in spreading Christ's message to all parts of the empire. Their only weapons were prayer, the Gospel, and the Cross.

- Pope John Paul II

Prayer O Lord, the First Martyrs of Rome were not rich or wise, but You filled them with Your riches, Your wisdom. Fill me, too with Your gifts, for without You I can do nothing.

From: Minute Meditations from the Popes (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., New York)

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Monday, June 29, 2009

Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Fee My lambs...Tend My sheep."

- Jn 21:15-16

Reflection: Where Peter is, there is the Church. Where the Church is, there is Jesus Christ. Where Jesus Christ is, there is eternal salvation.

- St. Ambrose

Prayer: Lord Jesus, You left us Your Church and Your Vicar the Pope to insure our contact with You. Let me always cling to Your Church and follow her teachings with all my heart.

From: Everyday Is A Gift (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., New York)

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Friday, June 26, 2009

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you may ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- Jn 15:7

Reflection: We cannot comprehend the power that a pure soul has over God. It is not the soul that does God's will, but God Who does the soul's will.
- St. John Vianney

Prayer: Enable me to live a life of purity that will make me live in You. Let me be so united with You that whatever I might ask will be in total accord with Your will for me.


From: Everyday Is A Gift (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., New York)

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Thursday, June 25, 2009

The seven sacraments touch all the stages and all the important moments of Christian life: they give birth and increase, healing ad mission to the Christian's life of faith. There is thus a certain resemblance between the stages of natural life and the stages of the spiritual life.

- CCC #1210

Reflection: Christ is always with us, but in the sacraments he is present powerfully and physically at our most important moments--those joyful, such as birth and marriage, and those most difficult, such as illness and death.

Prayer: Jesus, help us to recognize your real presence in the sacraments.

From: Day By Day With The Catechism (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., New York)

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Wednesday, June 24, 2009

As it is written in Isaiah the Prophet, "Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight His paths."

- Mk 1:2-3

Reflection: An unexpected child, St. John the Baptist, called out to the people. He told them to prepare for a heavenly announcement, and invitation to universal rebirth.

- Pope John XXIII

Prayer: Heavenly Father, may my words and my actions proclaim to others that today is the day to prepare the way for the Lord. Everyday is the day to welcome the Church's Bridegroom.

From: Minute Meditations from the Popes (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., New York)

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Tuesday, June 23, 2009

In everything, deal with others as you would like them to deal with you.

- Mt 7:12

Reflection: Goodwill in the soul is the source of all good things and the mother of all virtues. Those who possess it hold in their hand--without fear of losing it--all that is necessary to lead a good life.

- St. Albert the Great

Prayer: Heavenly Father, grant me the true spirit of goodwill toward all. Let me be ever ready to carry out Your will and to come to the aid of all I encounter an this earthly pilgrimage.

From: Everyday Is A Gift (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., New York)

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Monday, June 22, 2009

I wore my righteousness like a garment; justice was my robe and my turban.

- Job 29:14

Reflection: In the present-day confusion of the notion of good and evil, licit and illicit, just and unjust, in the demoralizing spread of crime and immorality, we will do well to preserve and deepen the sense of natural law. This means the sense of justice, of integrity, and of the good.

- Pope Paul VI

Prayer: O Lord, help me never to lose a sense of what is right and just. Let me never be deceived by the conflicting voices of a confused world, but always seek and live Your truth.

From: Minute Meditations from the Popes (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., New York)